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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1161  Postby Agrippina » Feb 21, 2012 1:46 pm

SoM, are you bald, so I can laugh at you and then have a bear come out of the woods to tear me to pieces.
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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1162  Postby SafeAsMilk » Feb 21, 2012 1:54 pm

Agrippina wrote:SoM, are you bald, so I can laugh at you and then have a bear come out of the woods to tear me to pieces.

Yes, but god only sends bears for small children. For adults he sends this guy:

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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1163  Postby Oeditor » Feb 21, 2012 2:29 pm

Fallible wrote:Paarsurrey does not understand, I believe, that one does not need to believe in God in order to comment that God is not great,
I believe that paarsurrey doesn't believe in atheism. I believe you have picked out the likelihood that paarsurrey has got into his head the belief that Hitchens believed (and, by extension, the rest of us believe) in polytheim - the True Bane of Islam. That Hitchens rated paarsurrey's god as 000 while rating many others 999.
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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1164  Postby Agrippina » Feb 21, 2012 3:19 pm

@SaM :lol:
@ Oeditor: he's jealous about his god not getting the same non-rating.
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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1165  Postby HughMcB » Feb 21, 2012 3:29 pm


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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1166  Postby Agrippina » Feb 21, 2012 4:16 pm

Thanks for merging them Hugh.
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Re: Rating Hitchens’ Book

#1167  Postby hackenslash » Feb 21, 2012 6:29 pm

The template for rating the posts of Paarsurrey

Post: 01: <starting word: How: ---------: ending word: Everything > rating: 0

Comments in brief: There is not an original thought of paarsurrey; it is just plagiarizing from cretinist websites and fuckwitted apologists, and it is not an established fact of Science even.
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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1168  Postby Shrunk » Feb 21, 2012 7:47 pm

Agrippina wrote:Thanks for merging them Hugh.


I've also asked for the other thread on the book to be merged here. It's rather inconsiderate of paarsurrey to create unnecessary work for the mods by littering the board with duplicate threads, IMHO.
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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1169  Postby SafeAsMilk » Feb 21, 2012 8:11 pm

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Agrippina wrote:Thanks for merging them Hugh.


I've also asked that for the other thread on the book to be merged here. It's rather inconsiderate of paarsurrey to create unnecessary work for the mods by littering the board with duplicate threads, IMHO.

To be fair, I think he thinks he's doing something different by starting a separate thread for the idiotic concept of rating sentences. I will now rate his idea:

I give it a 1. It would get a zero for being utterly pointless, but it does get a point for being so mind-numbingly stupid as to be hilarious.
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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1170  Postby Onyx8 » Feb 21, 2012 10:21 pm

Lol
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Re: Christopher Hitchens’ book “GOD is NOT GREAT”

#1171  Postby Agrippina » Feb 22, 2012 7:20 pm

Now I'll never find that piece I offered to him to talk about.
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“Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1172  Postby paarsurrey » Feb 22, 2012 10:00 pm

Christopher Hitchens has named the first chapter of his book as “Taking it Mildly”; and as expected of an atheist journalist; he has like a spider woven the weak strings of his arguments until he wrote:

“Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.”10


By no means is the expression “Religion is man-made” any fact; but Hitchens’ wild intentions become obvious when he culminates towards the end of the chapter with the sentence:

“As I write these words, and as you read them, people of faith are in their different ways planning your and my destruction, and the destruction of all the hardwon human attainments that I have touched upon. Religion poisons everything.”13


I think it is Hitchens poisoning minds of the atheists.

By putting fears into the minds of the readers, he blows the trumpet of war.

Yet I say; he is wrong; the world is in danger of war between the worldly people; religion is not involved in it. The first two wars were not for any religion; the third-world war will also not be any different.

Hitchens proves to be a warmonger.

I, therefore, rate the first chapter of his book on its merit as “0”.

I think everybody will agree
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1173  Postby chairman bill » Feb 22, 2012 10:31 pm

paarsurrey wrote:I think everybody will agree


You think wrong. Whilst I don't agree with everything Hitchens wrote, I also don't agree with your analysis in its entirety.
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1174  Postby Pulsar » Feb 22, 2012 10:37 pm

paarsurrey wrote:By no means is the syllable “Religion is man-made” any fact

It isn't? Do you think the Vatican is run by aliens?
Actually, that would explain a lot :think:
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1175  Postby Onyx8 » Feb 22, 2012 10:41 pm

Paarsurrey: how many different people are posting under this username?

I ask politely and would appreciate an honest answer.
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1176  Postby LucidFlight » Feb 22, 2012 10:50 pm

paarsurrey wrote:By no means is the syllable “Religion is man-made” any fact;

I think that's six syllables, actually.
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1177  Postby Moonwatcher » Feb 22, 2012 10:59 pm

paarsurrey wrote:Christopher Hitchens has named the first chapter of his book as “Taking it Mildly”; and as expected of an atheist journalist; he has like a spider woven the weak strings of his arguments until he wrote:

“Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.”10


By no means is the syllable “Religion is man-made” any fact; but Hitchens’ wild intentions become obvious when he culminates towards the end of the chapter with the sentence:

“As I write these words, and as you read them, people of faith are in their different ways planning your and my destruction, and the destruction of all the hardwon human attainments that I have touched upon. Religion poisons everything.”13


I think it is Hitchens poisoning minds of the atheists.

By putting fears into the minds of the readers, he blows the trumpet of war.

Yet I say; he is wrong; the world is in danger of war between the worldly people; religion is not involved in it. The first two wars were not for any religion; the third-world war will also not be any different.

Hitchens proves to be a warmonger.

I, therefore, rate the first chapter of his book on its merit as “0”.

I think everybody will agree


Of course. Because the most dangerous powerkeg of a situation currently in existence that could erupt into all-out war isn't based on a difference of religious ideologies.
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1178  Postby paarsurrey » Feb 23, 2012 1:15 am

Onyx8 wrote:Paarsurrey: how many different people are posting under this username?

I ask politely and would appreciate an honest answer.


I am just one person.
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1179  Postby paarsurrey » Feb 23, 2012 1:22 am

LucidFlight wrote:
paarsurrey wrote:By no means is the syllable “Religion is man-made” any fact;

I think that's six syllables, actually.


Thanks for pointing it out; I have changed the word syllable with the word expression. Is it OK? Sorry,English is not my mother tongue.
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Re: “Putting It Mildly” or Putting it Wildly

#1180  Postby paarsurrey » Feb 23, 2012 1:23 am

Moonwatcher wrote:
paarsurrey wrote:Christopher Hitchens has named the first chapter of his book as “Taking it Mildly”; and as expected of an atheist journalist; he has like a spider woven the weak strings of his arguments until he wrote:

“Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.”10


By no means is the syllable “Religion is man-made” any fact; but Hitchens’ wild intentions become obvious when he culminates towards the end of the chapter with the sentence:

“As I write these words, and as you read them, people of faith are in their different ways planning your and my destruction, and the destruction of all the hardwon human attainments that I have touched upon. Religion poisons everything.”13


I think it is Hitchens poisoning minds of the atheists.

By putting fears into the minds of the readers, he blows the trumpet of war.

Yet I say; he is wrong; the world is in danger of war between the worldly people; religion is not involved in it. The first two wars were not for any religion; the third-world war will also not be any different.

Hitchens proves to be a warmonger.

I, therefore, rate the first chapter of his book on its merit as “0”.

I think everybody will agree


Of course. Because the most dangerous powerkeg of a situation currently in existence that could erupt into all-out war isn't based on a difference of religious ideologies.


I appreciate your comments.

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